Meh.
The guy they cast as Aladdin looks so wrong for this role.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 12, 2018 6:03 AM |
It's directed by Guy Ritchie. It'll be a dismal flop.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 12, 2018 9:08 AM |
Doubtful. These Disney remakes do well regardless of who's directing.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 12, 2018 9:12 AM |
A "Live-Action" picture with a 99% CGI trailer. OK then.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 12, 2018 10:12 AM |
Ominous music? Check.
Variation on the least-remembered melody from the original? Check.
Gloomy, apocalyptic superhero-movie mood? Check.
Crumbly, incomprehensible voice acting? Check.
Shiny CGI? Check.
Briefest shot possible of any living human being but only in the last few seconds? Check.
This looks fucking horrible.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 12, 2018 10:12 AM |
It’s horrible. Next.
What about Mulan?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 12, 2018 10:18 AM |
Mildly stimulating
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 12, 2018 10:25 AM |
God forbid they show some skin.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 12, 2018 10:42 AM |
Why call it live action movie when most of it is CGI anyway? I mean I bet even the actors are CGI'd to death to make them look like they fit in that CGI world.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 12, 2018 10:47 AM |
Everyone wants to see Jasmine!!
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 12, 2018 10:50 AM |
That was a very drawn out teaser trailer....
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 12, 2018 11:05 AM |
Do "we" really need EVERY Disney cartoon turned into a CGI "Live action" film? I'm looking forward to "The Emperor's New Groove", "The Rescuers" and "Robin Hood".
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 12, 2018 11:22 AM |
Without Williams as The Genie, there is no other Disney version of "Aladdin".
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 12, 2018 11:41 AM |
They are doing "live action" Lion King that will be all CGI, these movies let Disney repackage the same story and make a shit ton of money. They aren't going to stop.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 12, 2018 12:06 PM |
Can you imagine how exquisitely PC it must be, because it’s set in a non western culture and when formerly told featured all sorts of stereotypes about middle eastern civilization?
Meanwhile in Turkey movies are being made about Americans being organ stealing vampires and they are #1 at the box office.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 12, 2018 12:24 PM |
Couldn't they at least cast a hot Aladdin?
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 12, 2018 12:45 PM |
I want a live action Hercules with a big blond Adonis.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 12, 2018 1:12 PM |
Are Lin-Manuel Miranda and Meryl in this one, too?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 12, 2018 4:18 PM |
It will probably be fun popcorn movie fare. It will look great and we all know the story. I think the lead is actually a good fit for the scrappy urchin role.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 12, 2018 4:28 PM |
Not a great trailer .
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 12, 2018 4:39 PM |
It's weird how Disney is releasing Dumbo, Aladdin and The Lion King in a space of four months. I hope the public overdoses on these crappy films (like they did on Star Wars) and at least one of them flops.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 12, 2018 4:40 PM |
Dumbo's the highest risk. Aladdin's gonna be fine and The Lion King will likely be a big fat hit. Imagine the press on that thing with Donald Glover and Beyonce out and about.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 12, 2018 4:48 PM |
[Quote] Do "we" really need EVERY Disney cartoon turned into a CGI "Live action" film? I'm looking forward to "The Emperor's New Groove", "The Rescuers" and "Robin Hood".
Such an underrated movie.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 12, 2018 4:48 PM |
Dumbo is a Tim Burton movie. He had great success with Alice in Wonderland. I wonder if that will be enough to secure a big and successful blockbuster ticket sale hit for at least the first weekend making it profitable?
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 12, 2018 4:52 PM |
There's just as much information in this teaser as the beauty and the beast teaser trailer, which was all cgi tracking to a rose. This one has a person. Just imitating the marketing of an extremely successful film. Nothing original.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 13, 2018 9:40 AM |
I'm disappointed in the actor playing Aladdin too. With all the ridiculously hot Arab guys in the world, they had to pick that bug-eyed guy.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 13, 2018 2:48 PM |
Also, where is Aladdin's sexy floppy hair?!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 13, 2018 7:32 PM |
Avan Jogia with long hair would've been the perfect Aladdin.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 13, 2018 8:05 PM |
Too much CGI.
[quote]Also, where is Aladdin's sexy floppy hair?!
The 90s called and they took back floppy haired Aladdin with Tom Cruise's 90s hair
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 13, 2018 10:38 PM |
Technically, isn't Aladdin supposed to be... Chinese?
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 13, 2018 11:18 PM |
So that old tiresome buffoon, our favourite house negro is playing Genie? Christ this will be awful
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 13, 2018 11:26 PM |
Will they at least acknowledge that Aladdin is one of those peace-loving Muslims?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 13, 2018 11:39 PM |
I hate Will Smith wish they had cast Terry Crews as Genie he would kill it
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 13, 2018 11:45 PM |
Navid Negahban (Abu Nazir from Homeland) is in this
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 13, 2018 11:49 PM |
Why does the genie have to be black? Why not middle eastern/indian like the rest of the main cast.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 13, 2018 11:51 PM |
R32 Aladdin is an Arabic name how is he supposed to be Chinese?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 13, 2018 11:51 PM |
R32 yes, Aladdin lived in China. His father was Mustapha the sailor
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 13, 2018 11:53 PM |
Jafar should top Aladdin, as punishment for the guy they have cast as Aladdin not being nearly hot enough, this guy is not dreamy middle eastern fuckable
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 13, 2018 11:54 PM |
Aladdin (Arabic: علاء الدين) is a folk tale of Middle Eastern origin. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ("The Arabian Nights"), and one of the best known—but it was not part of the original Arabic text, being added in the 18th century by Frenchman Antoine Galland, who attributed the tale to Syrian storyteller Youhenna Diab.
Since it first appeared in the early 18th century "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp" has been one of the best known and most retold of all fairy stories.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 13, 2018 11:56 PM |
R40 Mustapha is an Arabic name too
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 13, 2018 11:57 PM |
*tailor, not sailor
the beginning of the tale from Burton's translation of Arabian Nights:
"IT hath reached me, O King of the Age, that there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Aladdin hight. Now this boy had been from his babyhood a ne'er-do-well, a scapegrace. And when he reached his tenth year, his father inclined to teach him his own trade, and, for that he was overindigent to expend money upon his learning other work or craft or apprenticeship, he took the lad into his shop that he might be taught tailoring. But, as Aladdin was a scapegrace and a ne'er-do-well and wont to play at all times with the gutter boys of the quarter, he would not sit in the shop for a single day. Nay, he would await his father's leaving it for some purpose, such as to meet a creditor, when he would run off at once and fare forth to the gardens with the other scapegraces and low companions, his fellows. Such was his case- counsel and castigation were of no avail, nor would he obey either parent in aught or learn any trade. And presently, for his sadness and, sorrowing because of his son's vicious indolence, the tailor sickened and died.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 13, 2018 11:58 PM |
Scheherazade was thinking about saving her own life! She hadn't thought too much about geography when she placed Aladdin and Mustapha in the middle of China
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 14, 2018 12:02 AM |
At one of point of the tale in Arabian Nights, Aladdin asks to go back to China and the whole Sultan palace and everyone in it is transported from Morocco to China
I mean, it doesn't have to make sense. It is a story about a magical lamp afterall
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 14, 2018 12:11 AM |
There will be so many Buzzfeed articles and Tumblr posts lusting after Jafar when the film comes out.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 14, 2018 12:16 AM |
Avan Jogia looks like my brother, R30.
We’re not Middle Eastern, we’re Cuban.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 14, 2018 12:18 AM |
Thanks OP. That's exactly what I thought when I saw that empty 'teaser'.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 14, 2018 12:19 AM |
It's just a teaser. Meant to get all the Disney frau mussies wet.
Like this trailer for all the superhero Geeks 10 years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 14, 2018 12:32 AM |
There's way more footage in that Iron Man teaser than there was in this Aladdin one.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 14, 2018 12:35 AM |
It's so fucking lazy of Disney to keep remaking their own cartoons as live action films. I remember when they used to get flack for churning out low-budget direct-to-DVD sequels, but even THEY more originality in them than these remakes.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | October 14, 2018 12:50 AM |
I hate Zayn Malik for being a drugged out anorexic bitch with the personality of a plank of wood. Otherwise, he would've made a beautiful Aladdin
by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 14, 2018 3:10 AM |
Gorgeous poster
by Anonymous | reply 55 | October 14, 2018 7:30 AM |
It's a very nice poster. Here's a throwback to John Alvin's original teaser.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | October 14, 2018 7:33 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 19, 2018 6:24 PM |
Recast Will Smith by blue Terry Crews
by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 19, 2018 6:24 PM |
Will Smith looks like Goro from Mortal Kombat
by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 19, 2018 6:25 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 19, 2018 6:26 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 19, 2018 6:26 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 19, 2018 6:27 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 19, 2018 6:28 PM |
Will Smith confirms that the version of Genie seen on the @EW cover is the Genie in 'human/disguise form,' and that his character will be mostly CGI in Aladdin
by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 19, 2018 6:29 PM |
Will there be songs in this?
by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 19, 2018 6:38 PM |
Urg Will Smith sucks. And he sees an odd choice. Was anyone else a contender for the role? But otherwise, kinda pumped to see it.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 19, 2018 6:40 PM |
Yes there are songs r65, same as the animated film with a couple of new ones
by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 19, 2018 6:44 PM |
Aladdin was my favourite film as a child. I'm not sure I'm going to like the remake.
I wonder if they're going to include the cut songs from Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's original soundtrack?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 19, 2018 6:47 PM |
I hate Will Smith #puke
by Anonymous | reply 69 | December 21, 2018 10:15 AM |
r68 Tim Rice also wrote lyrics for some of the original's songs, including the biggest hit, "A Whole New World."
by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 21, 2018 7:23 PM |
[quote]I hate Will Smith wish they had cast Terry Crews as Genie he would kill it
I agree.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 1, 2019 4:34 PM |
Robin Williams Becomes Live-Action Blue Genie in Aladdin Fan Art
by Anonymous | reply 72 | February 15, 2019 1:32 PM |
Disney fans mock Will Smith's Genie in Aladdin
by Anonymous | reply 73 | February 15, 2019 3:51 PM |
[quote]Doubtful. These Disney remakes do well regardless of who's directing.
That’s what they said about Floppy Poopy Turds. But it didn’t. It flopped. It was a floppity flop flop FA-LOP. Why? Because of the hopeless miscasting and the unbelievably derivative structure. Go back to your celebrity karaoke night.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | February 15, 2019 4:48 PM |
[quote]hopeless miscasting
McFloppins indeed
There are so many actresses out there but they chose Emily Bland WTF
by Anonymous | reply 75 | February 15, 2019 5:27 PM |
Eva Green would be great Mary Poppins and she can sing for real no need to autotune or lip sync Yes she's French but she can do British accent.
Claire Foy also looks the part.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | February 15, 2019 5:30 PM |
There are tons of British actresses who would've been better than Blunt.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | February 15, 2019 5:34 PM |